President Donald Trump participates in a ceremony commemorating the 200th mile of border wall at the international border with Mexico in San Luis, Arizona, on June 23, 2020. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Vice President JD Vance said earlier this month during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas that he was under the belief that Trump was hoping to build a wall across every mile of the southern border by the end of his term in 2029.
"I think the president’s hope is that by the end of the term we build the entire border wall," the vice president told reporters during a press conference.
"And, of course, that’s the physical structure — the border wall itself — but we even heard today, there are so many good technological tools, so many great artificial intelligence-enabled technologies" that can also be used to secure the border, Vance added.
ICE agents arrested seven illegal immigrants during a workforce operation raid. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
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The number of illegal migrant "gotaways," or the number of successful illegal crossings, which are recorded using cameras and other surveillance methods, has dropped as much as 90% since Trump took office, according to some estimates based on numbers reported by Fox News' Bill Melugin last week.
According to the numbers reported by Melugin, border agents have been spotting an average of 77 "gotaways" per day, while during the height of the immigration crisis under Biden, that number reached as much as 1,800 per day, according to reports.
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